News of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery explosion on the morning of June 21, 2019, was frightening, first and foremost as we worried about the safety of the plant’s employees a… ...

Click here to enlarge image. Fig. 1 is a schematic of the two columns at the Warren refinery. The crude, after preheat, enters the preflash column at 320 degrees F.

The fire broke out at the oil refinery in the Komsomolsk-on-Amur region of Russia, with reports of a column catching fire at the height of 50 meters sparking panic.

Oil Refinery Explosion in Philadelphia, PA (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith | CC BY-SA 2.0) On the early morning of June 21, the PES refinery and surrounding neighborhoods were rocked by two explosions ...

Part 2 will show examples of these design guidelines using case studies of a refinery vacuum tower, ethylene quench oil tower, ethylene quench water tower, ethylene saturators, dilution steam ...

A column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Baiji, north of Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 19, 2014. U.S. military officials on Wednesday, May 6, 2015, acknowledged that Iraq’s biggest oil ...

A shelter-in-place has been issued at the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City Tuesday afternoon, according to the city of Texas City.

Profits at Asian refineries are being buffeted by a combination of factors, chief among them uncertainty over how exactly new shipping fuel standards will play out and the rise of China as a ...

Folks, this week, while compiling an article for Halloween, I recalled my time working in a Gladstone cemetery and how I was often asked if I'd seen any ghosts.